When a new spot opens in town, we can’t wait to check it out — and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that…

As we told you earlier this year, Pita Jungle — the Tempe-based chain of vegetarian and healthy food restaurants — decided to close its original location and move to a new spot on Mill Avenue. Well, the time has finally come, and as of November 5, Pita Jungle closed its…

Later this year Dixie Brands, one of Colorado’s leading edibles companies, will bring its THC and CBD topicals and edibles to the Arizona medical-marijuana market. The Denver-based company has partnered with Bloom Dispensaries and an affiliate of General Cannabis Corporation to not only distribute the entire line of Dixie Elixirs…

Since 2012, The Maine Lobster Lady has been one of the Valley most popular mobile eateries. Serving fresh Maine lobster in the form of lobster rolls, lobster bisque, lobster salad, and even lobster mac n’ cheese, the food truck often draws long lines of desert dwellers looking to get a…

In the upcoming months, Lucia and Ken Schnitzer, owners of Luci’s Healthy Marketplace, will open The Orchard, a restaurant, market, and event venue at 7120 North 12th Street in North Phoenix. The project comprises of two re-purposed buildings and a shared lawn. One building will house Pomelo, a restaurant, and the…

So there’s good news and bad news, Phoenix. We’ll start with the bad: Craft + Culture, the eatery/cheese shop/bar that local cheesemonger Lara Mulchay and her husband, Joel LaTondress, planned to open downtown Phoenix, is not going to happen.  Jon Erickson, director of sales and marketing of the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown…

Less than six months after we heralded the return of chef Peter DeRuvo to the kitchen at EVO in Scottsdale and just a few weeks after he and business partner Nick Neuman opened a second restaurant together in Tempe, the pair has parted ways.  Neither DeRuvo nor Neuman is commenting…

We already told you that one of Chicago’s most famous pizzerias, Lou Malnati’s, was planning to open a location in Phoenix, and now we know exactly where the chain’s first out-of-state restaurant will be.  Today the company announced the new pizzeria will be located at 100 E. Camelback Road., Suite…

He’s already changed the way America thinks about pizza, and now, nearly three decades after he opened his first restaurant, chef Chris Bianco will focus on something new. “My dream was always to do a little trattoria, to put as much emphasis on pasta as we did on pizza in…